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Examples
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Shall Typho vent, with slingstone-showers red-hot,
Prometheus Bound 2002
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Shall Typho vent, with slingstone-showers red-hot,
Prometheus Bound 2002
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He™d carefully avoided Gareth thus far, afraid the Knight might find out whose slingstone nearly killed him.
Chosen Of The Gods Pierson, Chris 2001
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Juan Pizarro and the cavalry broke out of Cusco, circled around and attacked the Inca in Sacsayhuaman (during the attack Juan was killed by a slingstone).
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Both above and below, the enemy seemed to have sat down to wait, not even hurling the occasional arrow or slingstone at a venture into the rocks where Conan's band lay hidden.
Conan and The Mists of Door Green, Roland 1995
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The slingstone struck a Transformed in the knee, hard enough to leave it limping.
Conan the Valiant Green, Roland 1988
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One of the sitting men fell over, ribs crushed and heart stopped by a slingstone.
Conan the Valiant Green, Roland 1988
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Pummairam's spent slingstone clattered over the cobbles.
Time Patrolman Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1983
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And one whose slingstone was so unerring that the missile was kept separate in Urkut's waistpouch, was definitely magical.
The Magic May Return Niven, Larry 1981
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And this time Boerab had found a magnificent cock pheasant quivering beside the slingstone, and Urkut had sagaciously denied any miraculous powers while putting his slingstone away.
The Magic May Return Niven, Larry 1981
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